W Quotes
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“When the sands of time come falling down, we are only left with our choices. Choose wisely; however, some may argue wisdom is relative.”
“When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.”
“When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should know that the Turks did not wait for the fire to burn itself out, but rushed upon the Templars among the scorching flames.”
“When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.”
“When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.”
“When the scene is over, a lot of people cut. The actors are acting. And they just stop acting. But I think that leaving people in that moment and seeing where else it can go and pushing them to take it further, a lot of special things can happen.”
“When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.”
“When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.”
“When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.”
“When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.”
“When the Scripture relates redemption to the law of God, the terms it uses are to be carefully marked. It does not say we are redeemed from the law. That would not be an accurate description and the Scripture refrains from such an expression. We are not redeemed from the obligation to love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and strength and mind and our neighbour as ourselves.
The law is comprehended in these two commandments (Matt. 22:40) and love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom. 13:10)... It would contradict the very nature of God to think that any person can ever be relieved of the necessity to love God with the whole heart and to obey his commandments.
When Scripture relates redemption to the law of God it uses terms that are more specific.”
Source: Redemption Accomplished and Applied
“When the Scripture says the Father breathed the breath of life into the man, He was saying that He breathed spirit into the soul man. The living soul did not look like we look now. The living soul was a spiritual creation, it was not in a physical body like we have.”
Source: The Mind Of The Spirit
“When the Scripture speaks, God speaks”
“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“When the sea is calm everything sails perfectly.
Calm your mind and everything is going to be alright”
“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”
“When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.”
“When the seasons change, our bodies respond to the natural cycles of nature. And when a change of season occurs, it’s a lovely time to do a very gentle, nurturing, cleansing for body, mind, heart, and spirit.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.”
Source: Path of Practice: Ayurvedic Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound
“When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.”
“When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.”
“When the second stage of Stonehenge was built on Salisbury Plain c. 2700 BC, it could not have been called Stonehenge, which is an English name. The English had not yet arrived. The English language had not been invented. The Plain would have been there; but it could not have been named after Salisbury, since Salisbury itself had not been founded. One may deduce that a year equivalent to 2700 BC once existed; but no such date could have been conceived before the birth of Christ or the concept of a Common Era. There was no country called 'France', and nothing equivalent to it; there was no 'England', and there was no 'Britain', and no 'Brittany'. As yet, there were no Ancient Gauls, no Ancient Britons, and no Ancient Bretons. This holds good even if each of those later communities would owe much to the gene pool of their unidentifiable predecessors.”
Source: The Isles: A History
“When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.”
“When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.”
“When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of the New York Fed say, "We want you to do this because we think it's in the best interest of the United States of America," you know, we're like the Japanese. We're a little patriotic that way. We said, "Yes, sir!"”
“When the seed of love got sprouted in the heart was it the seed or your sight which sprouted my dead heart?”
Source: The Inward Journey
“When the Seinfeld show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. Thor is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.”
“When the Self (Atma) becomes engrossed (tanmayakar) in the resultant states of the mind, then meditation (dhyan) arises.”
Source: The Essence Of All Religion
“When the Self dissolves into a world of separate selves and death becomes real, love becomes a pact with grief; what is gained then is the inescapability poignant fact of individuality. There will never be another you, and I love the stubborn particularity of you because you will disappear.”
Source: What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
“When the self is in communion with higher power, Nature automatically obeys, without stress or strain, the will of man.”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
“When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.”
Source: Standing by Words
“When the Self (vastu) fails to remain in its inherent nature as the Self, it is considered as pramatt bhaav (being in a state of anger-pride-deceit-greed). When the Self remains in its original intrinsic functional properties, it is apramatt bhaav.”
Source: Worries
“When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.”
“When the sense of collective bubbles in your blood, all bubbles of division will burst for good.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull House
“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")”
“When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.”
“When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.”
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.”
“When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.”
Source: The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex
“When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.”
Source: The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People
“When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.”
“When the shadow of resentment covers the mind, the poisonous tongue becomes active and bites the kind! - Pameli Mukherjee”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.”
“When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excrutiating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his and his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“When the shadows in the sun roll on, we listen to a slow, slow song.”